GetFromSerendipia: Get Covid-19 Data From Serendipia's page
In pablorm296/covidMex: Official SARS-CoV-2 Data for Mexico and the World

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Get Covid-19 Data From Serendipia's page

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  GetFromSerendipia(targetURL = "https://serendipia.digital/2020/03/datos-abiertos-sobre-casos-de-coronavirus-covid-19-en-mexico/",
  targetCSS = "table", type = "confirmed", date = "today",
  neat = TRUE)

`targetURL`	Target URL of the HTTP request. `character` vector of length 1.
`targetCSS`	CSS selector of the nodes containing the data files URL. `character` vector of length 1.
`type`	Get confirmed (`confirmed`) or suspect (`suspects`) cases?. `character` vector of length 1.
`date`	Date (version) of the report. `character` vector of length 1 or `Date` object. #' If `character`, date must be in day/month/year format.
`neat`	Should data be cleaned (dates, state name, column names)? `logical` vector of length 1.

Mexico's Ministry of Health published a daily report containing data about positive and suspected cases of Covid-19 cases in the country (Comunicado Técnico Diario). However, this report was published as a PDF document, difficulting further analysis. Serendipia, a data based journalism initiative, publishes CSV and XLSX versions of the official reports. This function makes a request to Serendipia's Covid-19 data page and downloads the specified data table.

As of 14/04/2020, Mexico's Ministry of Health started publishing an open format version of the official report on Covid-19 cases. However, Serendipia continues to upload daily CSV files with the same variables as the previous PDF document. This aids in keeping a consistent data logging, and facilitates intertemporal comparisons.

A tibble with 8 columns: Case Number, State, Sex, Age, Symptoms Onset Date, COVID-19 Test Result, Country Visited, Date of Arrival to Mexico.

pablorm296/covidMex documentation built on May 2, 2020, 4:56 p.m.